International education and travel related links, photos, quotes and pieces of interest.
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People Who Studied Abroad #633:
A. Michael Spence, Nobel Prize-winning economist
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Born in the United States, did his secondary education in Canada
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After graduating from Princeton University with a degree in Philosophy, he went on to study Mathematics at the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
People Who Studied Abroad #619:
Dennis Gabor, Nobel Prize-winning electrical engineer and physicist and inventor of holography
From:
Hungary
Studied:
He first studied at the Technical University of Budapest, then at the Charlottenburg Technical University in Berlin, Germany (now the Technical University of Berlin).
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People Who Studied Abroad #507:
Mario Vargas Llosa, writer and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature
From:
Peru
Studied:
In 1958, he received a scholarship to study at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain).
People Who Studied Abroad #501:
Joseph Stiglitz, economist
From:
United States
Studied:
He won a Fulbright Scholarship in 1965 which allowed him to study at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). He then won a Tapp Junior Research Fellowship and continued his study at Gonville and Caius College, also at Cambridge.
People Who Studied Abroad #444:
Niels Bohr, physicist
From:
Denmark
Studied:
He did post-graduate study at Trinity College, Cambridge (United Kingdom) in 1911.
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People Who Studied Abroad #396:
Muhammad Yunus, microfinance pioneer and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
From:
Bangladesh
Studied:
In 1965, he received a Fulbright scholarship to study in the United States. He obtained his PhD in economics from Vanderbilt University’s graduate program in Economic Development in 1971.
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People Who Studied Abroad #372:
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia
From:
Liberia
Studied:
She studied economics and accounting at the College of West Africa in Liberia, then in 1961 she traveled to the United States and earned a degree in accounting from Madison Business College in Madison, Wisconsin. In the summer of 1970 she studied at the University of Colorado’s summer Economics Institute. She received a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard in 1971.
People Who Studied Abroad #268:
Boris Pasternak, novelist and poet
From:
Russian Empire
Studied:
He dropped out of the Moscow Conservatory and went to Germany, where he studied philosophy at the University of Marburg for some period between 1910 and 1914. In 1917, he wrote the poem “Marburg” about a love affair he had while living there.
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People Who Studied Abroad #230:
Ralph Bunche, diplomat and political scientist
From:
United States
Studied:
After completing his PhD at Harvard, he conducted postdoctoral research in anthropology at London School of Economics (United Kingdom) and University of Cape Town (South Africa).
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People Who Studied Abroad #200:
Wangari Maathai, environmental activist and Nobel laureate (Peace)
From:
Kenya
Studied:
In 1960, she was chosen as one of about 300 African students sponsored by the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation to study in the United States. She majored in biology (with minors in chemistry and German) at Mount St. Scholastica College (now Benedictine College), in Atchison, Kansas (United States). She also received a master’s degree in biology from the University of Pittsburgh (United States). She also pursued doctoral studies at University of Giessen and the University of Munich (both in Germany) although her PhD was completed at the University of Nairobi.
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People Who Studied Abroad #171:
Albert Einstein, physicist
From:
Germany
Studied:
When his family moved from Germany to Italy, he went to Aarau, Switzerland to complete his secondary education. He then enrolled in the four-year mathematics and physics teaching diploma program at the Eidgenössische Polytechnische Schule (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. He received his PhD from the University of Zurich in Switzerland.
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People Who Studied Abroad #157:
Roger Y. Tsien, chemist and Nobel laureate
From:
United States
Studied:
He received a Marshall Scholarship, which enabled him to study for his PhD in Physiology from Churchill College, University of Cambridge. He was also a Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.
People Who Studied Abroad #150:
Kofi Annan, seventh United Nations Secretary General and Nobel laureate
From:
Ghana
Studied:
He received a Ford Foundation grant to study at Macalester College (United States). He then earned a DEA degree in International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Switzerland). He completed a MS degree in the Sloan Fellows program at the MIT Sloan School of Management (United States).
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People Who Studied Abroad #134:
T.S. Eliot, poet
From:
United States
Studied:
Spent a year studying philosophy at the Sorbonne (France) while a student at Harvard. Following graduation he enrolled in a summer course at the University of Marburg (Germany), but had to leave early when World War I broke out in 1914. He proceed to Merton College, University of Oxford (United Kingdom), where he had received a scholarship.
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People Who Studied Abroad #94:
Barbara McClintock, scientist and Nobel laureate (Physiology/Medicine)
From:
United States
Studied:
Received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation to study in Germany during 1933 and 1934.
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